I'll be moving to Fort Collins for the summer starting in July. I'm looking for recommendations for fun spots to live in and around the city that are best located for climbing (I primarily sport climb, but also boulder and trad climb). Assume I know nothing -- all advice is helpful.
Welcome to FOCO Connor. If you plan to rent here, average apartment is $1200/month rent and house share rent runs $600 to $800/month rent. There are some postings in MP for people looking for room mates, but they might be dated. Else, Craigslist and the local online paper, The Coloradoan posts ads. Not a large town and sure you will find all the good brew pubs in Old Town by the first week. Regarding climbing, lots of bouldering right next to FOCO at Horsetooth Reservoir, but most areas now require daily fee or annual pass to park. Sport climbing at Arthur's Rock and Poudre Canyon and you can download the guides at http://nococlimbing.org/. Big Thompson Canyon boasts multi pitch sport climbing at Mary's Bust, https://www.mountainproject.com/area/106811702/marys-bust-area, single hard pitch stuff at the Monastery (also has some stuff I can do) https://www.mountainproject.com/area/105744343/the-monastery and trad/sport at Combat Rock https://www.mountainproject.com/area/105745049/combat-rock . Then the mecca for trad is Lumpy https://www.mountainproject.com/area/105744228/lumpy-ridge more climbs than you can do in a life time...once finished with these areas give a holler. Enjoy your summer, Terry
really anywhere in the city is going to be fine as there isnt any good sport climbing that you aren't going to drive to. You could live in West FOCO and be close to horsetooth, but you would still have to drive, and it isn't the best place to live IMO.
I would choose to live in north central FOCO just west of downtown or somewhere on remington just north of CSU campus. Very fun places to live and good access to bars/food/music/beer.